The Social Security Administration (SSA) has added more than 10 new conditions to its Compassionate Allowances (CAL) list.

The purpose of CAL is to help expedite the processing of disability claims for people with the most serious diseases and medical conditions who meet the administration’s statutory standard for disability benefits.

According to a statement from the SSA, the CAL list now has 300 conditions after adding these 13 conditions:

Au-Kline Syndrome

Bilateral Anophthalmia

Carey-Fineman-Ziter Syndrome

Harlequin Ichthyosis – Child

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

LMNA-related Congenital Muscular Dystrophy

Progressive Muscular Atrophy

Pulmonary Amyloidosis – AL Type

Rasmussen Encephalitis

Thymic Carcinoma

Turnpenny-Fry Syndrome

WHO Grade III Meningiomas

Zhu-Tok

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